Passengers waiting for the reopening of terminal B crowd around the entrance to the inter terminal train at Terminal C of George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. Officials said an armed male suffered at least one gunshot wound near a ticket counter in the pre-screening area of Terminal B of Bush Intercontinental Airport. The incident prompted the closing of terminal B, diverting passengers and delaying flights. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle )
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Shots were fired Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental airport in Houston on Thursday, May 2, 2013.

Shots were fired Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental airport in Houston on Thursday, May 2, 2013.

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Shots were fired Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental airport in Houston on Thursday, May 2, 2013.

Shots were fired Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental airport in...

Shots were fired Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental airport in Houston on Thursday, May 2, 2013.

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Shots were fired Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental airport in...

Luggage is reloaded onto conveyor belt to be taken to another area for passenger pickup after a shooting in Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Thursday, May 2, 2013

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An HPD K9 police officer sweeps the baggage level after a shooting in Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Thursday, May 2, 2013.

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Police are on the scene at shooting in Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Thursday, May 2, 2013.

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Police are on the scene at shooting in Terminal B at Bush...

Passengers waiting for the reopening of terminal B crowd around message boards at Terminal C of George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. Officials said an armed male suffered at least one gunshot wound near a ticket counter in the pre-screening area of Terminal B of Bush Intercontinental Airport. The incident prompted the closing of terminal B, diverting passengers and delaying flights. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle )
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Passengers waiting for the reopening of terminal B crowd around...

An EMS ambulance pulls out of Terminal B at Intercontinental Airport on Thursday. Because of the shooting, Terminal B was shut down for several hours, and incoming passengers were rerouted to enter through terminals C and E.

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Neighbors say police officials raided the Beaumont home of Carnell Marcus Moore on Thursday in connection with the Intercontinental Airport shooting.

The portrait of an apparently troubled, desperate man emerged as police pieced together the last few days in the life of the Beaumont man who officials say kidnapped a woman before committing suicide at Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday.

Police said an agent with the Homeland Security Investigations confronted Moore and opened fire nearly simultaneously when Moore shot himself with a .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol. The agent's bullet wounded Moore in the right shoulder.

The shooting happened in a portion of the terminal that was not in a security area.

Harris said a loaded AR-15 rifle was found in a black roller suitcase Moore had brought to the airport with him.

Both of the guns, Harris said, had been bought in Beaumont last year. Investigators were tracing the history of the guns but neither had ever been stolen. One of them was purchased at a pawn shop.

A Gideon's Bible taken from a Houston hotel room where Moore had stayed and a suicide note were also found in the suitcase. The portion of the note released does not reveal what pushed Moore to want die but it does show that he appeared determined to end his life while not hurting other people, Harris added.

"Here in the last hour," the note states," I yield to mercy when this could have turned bad. Jehovah found a path to my heart, that love would conquer anger. The monster within me was getting stronger and while I could not save myself I could spare others. [redacted] Peace is within sight. I ask that authorities handle my disposal – Carnell Marcus Moore"

The note included references to several Bible verses including Genesis 12:1 and Pslams 83:18. The verses have to with the glory of God, Harris said.

Moore's father was making funeral arrangements on Friday.

Carl W. Moore of Beaumont said he had heard his son had been involved in a domestic dispute, but he said he didn't know the details. He insisted he was a law-abiding man who was gainfully employed.

"Well he had no record. He was a grown man, so I wouldn't see him every day. He worked every day," said Carl Moore, contacted by phone in Beaumont.

Officials with the Jefferson County District Attorneys office said Carnell Moore had no criminal record in the county, and the Sheriff's Department confirmed there were no outstanding warrants or criminal referrals for him.

Moore's odyssey that ended at the airport began Tuesday when he kidnapped a woman he worked with and tried to force her to drive him to Houston, said Fil Waters of the HPD Homicide Division. Waters said Moore had become infatuated with the woman, who worked as an office manager at the apartment complex where he was a maintenance man. However, there had been no romantic relationship between them.

Waters said the woman was able to talk her way out of the abduction and fled. He did not reveal what she said to Moore or why Moore wanted her to drive him to Houston. The woman reported the incident to Beaumont police on Wednesday.Waters said Moore then drove to Houston and checked into the Hotel Derek alone. So far, investigators have little information about what he did after he got to the hotel and later went to the airport. However, they know he made several posts on his Facebook page and on Wednesday spoke by telephone with his brother.

His brother, Waters said, asked if he still had his guns with him. Moore said he didn't have the weapons and had disposed of them. He also told his brother that everything was fine with him and he was just visiting Houston.

Waters said Moore's brother told investigators Moore had recently said he wanted to confront a police officer. He also told police his brother had mental health issues, but was uncertain what they were. His family members said he a was quiet, private person.

Waters said investigators so far have not determined what, if any, mental health concerns Moore may have had. But, he said, it seems clear from his actions and his suicide note that he was troubled.

"What it was a desperate act committed by a confused young man who had lost all hope," Waters said.

Harris said surveillance videos at the airport are helping investigators create a time line of the last hour in Moore's life.

He parked his pickup in the north Terminal B pickup area about noon. He got out of the pickup, grabbed his suitcase from the truck bed and walked into the terminal about 12:20 p.m. He sat in a passenger waiting area near the United Airlines ticket counter.

Three other people, including a man in a wheelchair, were sitting near him, Waters said. At one point, Moore spoke to the man sitting in a row chairs in front of him, telling him to get the man in the wheelchair out of the area. The man he spoke to asked if Moore was talking to him. Then the man suddenly dashed away.

Later, Moore fired two shots into the ceiling with his pistol, Waters said. The Homeland Security agent heard the gunfire and rushed out of his office. He saw Moore, who raised his handgun. Waters said the agent fired at the same time Moore pulled the trigger as he pressed the barrel of the gun against his temple.

No other people were injured. Police and federal agents are still investigating the case.

Why Moore may have wanted to end his life remains a mystery. However, on his Facebook page hours before he died, he wrote about meeting death.

"I recently had the chance of staring death in the face, and she was beautiful," he wrote at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday, 24 hours before he died.

About 12:45 a.m. Thursday, he proclaimed that "This Life Will Crash Tomorrow!"

And about 12:42 p.m., he posted: "45 minutes and 59 seconds in God's Shadow and Time Stops."

His timeline also includes a video of a strained and sorrowful spoken word piece called "When I go to meet God."

The lyrics include: "What makes a mother's son decide that death is better than tomorrow?" and "This is not a life worth living. I already ruined it."